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XCP-ng vs Nutanix Community Edition: catalog facts
XCP-ng	Nutanix Community Edition
Free The hypervisor is free and open source. Vates sells support and the prebuilt Xen Orchestra…	Free Free to download after joining the Nutanix community.
Linux, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
No feature is locked behind a licence key Xen Orchestra adds backup, replication and a web console across a pool of hosts	Full-featured Nutanix platform on your own hardware Includes the AHV hypervisor and Prism management
Xen Orchestra's prebuilt appliance is a paid product; the free path is building it from source Hardware compatibility follows Xen, which is narrower than KVM	Registration required to download Aimed at advanced users
Self-hosted, Operating system	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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